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NZ Super axes GMO mandates

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... timber assets. GMO was appointed to manage: a non-US small-cap mandate in June 2004; a growth-oriented global equity portfolio in February 2005; and a multi-strategy equities mandate in June 2006. This decision does not affect the New Zealand Superannuation ...

UniSuper reviews illiquidity risk

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... near term," he said. For example, Pearce said UniSuper is looking at realisations in its $900 million private equity portfolio. That said, Pearce is not ruling out the possibility of further large mandates in direct investments. "We could probably do ...

Lodestar hires two senior analysts

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Lodestar Capital Partners has appointed Michael Kelly and Gary Armor as two senior team members of its equities research team. Kelly joins Lodestar from Portfolio Partners where he was a founding partner and helped manage several equity portfolios. ...

SSgA appoints equities head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
State Street Global has appointed Marc Reinganum as head of its active developed market equities team. Based in Boston, Reinganum is responsible for all aspects of active management within the global developed market equity portfolios, and reports to ...

Morningstar buys Aegis

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Morningstar Australasia has agreed to buy Aegis Equities Research from its holding company. Aegis Equities Research was founded in 1999 and services institutions, financial advisers and retail clients. The firm has a web-based research platform that ...

ETS collapse threatens ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... so it becomes a whole portfolio issue and we were doing a lot of analysis on what impact that would have on an equity portfolio," said Gray. "Whereas the Oppositions proposal, which is a more targeted investment type, is not a whole of economy issue ...

Schroders scoops intl equities mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... statement, GESB noted it chose Schroders following a review of the core component of its $2.7 billion international equity portfolio, which accounts for one quarter of its $10 billion investment portfolio. GESB did not disclose the size of the mandate ...

New FM for Share Plus

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... fund (Share Plus). Skamvougeras worked at CPH/Ellerston Capital for seven years managing the long/short global equity portfolio. "He has an in-depth understanding of the disciplines around the stock shorting process, market drivers and fundamental analysis," ...

ING appoints CIO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Former BT Financial Group executive Stewart Brentnall has been appointed to the newly created role of chief investment officer of ING Australia. In this role Brentnall will build and lead a specialist ING Australia research and investment team and capability. ...

Legalsuper cuts 17 fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... Asset Management, Schroder Investment Management and eight other fund managers were dropped from the Australian equity portfolio. Aberdeen Asset Management lost its Australian fixed interest mandate with the fund and Acadian Asset Management, Alliance ...